 Did you know that 33% of kids in America grow up without their biological father? I'm Mark Merrill with today's Family Minute. In the early 1990s, there was a national debate about whether fathers were important or not in their kids' lives. Of course, we all know that fathers play a huge role in their children's upbringing. We conducted and found many studies that clearly revealed that fatherless kids were more likely to live in poverty, do drugs, and have problems in school, just to name a few.